Using up Alpha Stickers

A current challenge at Soul Scrappers is to: "challenge for you this month is to find a few of those half empty sheets (of alphas) and figure out a creative way to use them on a layout, 2 cards or an off the page project.".
My alphas are not stored neatly - they are all over the place, in plastic boxes, cardboard boxes, even in suitcases - don't ask.  One of these days I will get them organized.
So as I was looking for half used alphas, I also found half used vellum stickers and even a fabric sticker - so I decided my layout would include all the stickers. 
The photos of my sister and I were taken at Coffs Harbour (on northern coast of NSW) last year.  
Please excuse the more quality of the photo of the layout - I recently had a fall - camera in hand - and the digital screen cracked and the camera is currently at the camera doctor for a quote to be fixed.  So mobile (cell) phone to the rescue.
Thanks for looking,  Margaret

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Unknown said…
You did great with using up the old alphas creatively as well as other old stash. WTG!!! I love trips to the beach! So glad you took my challenge.
May 18, 2015 at 12:37 PM
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